An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria
Summer 2008, pp. 57-62
On the morning of September 6, 2007, Israel Air Force (IAF) planes penetrated deep into Syrian airspace and attacked a nuclear facility near the town of Dayr al-Zur in the northeastern...
Incisive Commentary on Events in Israel
Posting: July 11, 2008
"Still Iran"
Iran remains very much in the news -- and with solid reason.
No one -- except the parties both here and the US who are directly involved -- know exactly what's...
Palestinian Tractor-Terrorism: Mainstream Not Renegade
1. Hate-Education-Driven-Terrorism. The July 2, 2008 Palestinian Tractor-Terrorism constituted a precise Palestinian human-missile, guided by Palestinian hate-education, instituted in 1994 by Abu-Mazen, then Arafat's first deputy, and proliferated via Abu Mazen's current educational-religious-media infrastructures....
Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No (28): 75.8% Reconciliation impossible this generation even if Palestinians...
12 June 2008
These are the results of the latest poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip between 5 and 7 June...
Lack of Authority and Unwarranted Tampering with International Law
Two distinct issues exist: the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of the Holy Places. Cambridge Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice and a renowned editor of...
IDF: Jenin forces not fighting terror
Hours after US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Jerusalem on Sunday, top defense officials and IDF officers slammed a recently-launched US initiative, under which Palestinian soldiers have deployed in Nablus and Jenin.
According...
Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture
Antisemitism has been present in Great Britain for almost a thousand years of recorded history. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. It pioneered...
Why Israel Conquered The Golan Heights
The course of history can be changed by the determination of one man who stands up for what he believes in when he is listened to by people who are in a position of...
A Diary of Newsworthy Insight
Posting: May 12, 2008
"Inspiration"
Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, delivered a speech for Israel's 60th. It is so extraordinary that I must lead off with this today:
"All of my life, Israel has been a...
Israel’s Predicament at 60
Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan.
They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....